Fighting the Shadow Warriors: A Marine in Vietnam, by Harry Knickerbocker
The Vietnam War was a war of attrition, a war of statistics, by which victory would be calculated by a tolerable loss ratio of more dead Viet Cong (VC) than Americans. It was highly political and egotistical for the old men sitting in boardrooms calculating and scheming. For the men who left their homes filled with propaganda and naivete, who inevitably found themselves sweating in foxholes and being shot at, this war tested their humanity and their sanity.